06/23/2014 In an official statement, the local Church calls on the parties to use reason and set up a national unity government that represents all citizens. War will not deliver any winners…
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2014-06-23 23:55 GMT Mosul, Iraq (AINA) — The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has begun to brutally enforce Islamic laws (AINA 2014-06-14) in Mosul, Iraq, which it overran on June…
Iraq Christians who might want to return to a semblance of normal life in Mosul still face danger from Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants. With the burning of one…
By Richard Spencer, Bartella 6:00PM BST 21 Jun 2014 Captain Firaz Jacob knows he may well be mounting a last stand at the frontiers of the Christian settlement of Bartella on the…
2014-06-21 Baghdad (AINA) — According to Alsumaria News, an Arabic language website, the High Commission for Human Rights in Iraq has confirmed that ISIS has begun imposing the jizya, a poll tax,…
21 June 2014 A Ukrainian church in Sydney has been desecrated with racial slurs in an attack the NSW government has labelled vicious and abhorrent. Members of the Ukrainian community woke on…
The National Assembly of France has accepted the proposal of “Oriental Christians under threat coordination” (CHREDO) to form a research group the state of Oriental Christians. The initiative was put forward by…
Pope: Religious Persecution attacks peace and it belittles our dignity VATICAN CITY, June 20, 2014 (Zenit.org) – Here is the Pope’s address to the International Congress organized by the Department of Jurisprudence…
By Judit Neurink 19/6/2014 BARDARASH, Kurdistan Region – There is no place for them in an Islamic state, say Christians who fled Iraq’s second city of Mosul for safer areas controlled by…
By Sean Savage/JNS.org, June 19, 2014 For most Westerners, Iraq is a foreboding and dangerous place that is filled with extremists and daily violence. Yet as little as 75 years ago Iraq…